Quotes about children
children good-life selfish
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States. Jane Goodall
children world changing-the-world
Children can change the world.
children emotional long
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.
children kids inspire
You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.
children eye giving
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen. Jane Fonda
children growing-up parent
The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
children psychics world
When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.
children kids okay
You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.
children growing-up school
Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
children moving fall
I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
children loss soda-pop
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
children athlete average
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. Jamie Farr
children growing-up fighting
It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them? Jamie Bell
children forever mind
When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.
children years parent
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years. Juvenal
children son years
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
children young gentle
Be gentle with the young.
children met
My husband's name is Christopher Morgan, and we met in Atlanta. My two children are Sebastian and Quincy. Kim Fields
children though time
You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things. Kelly Preston
children embarrass example learned minds nature speak
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile. Joseph B. Wirthlin
children clothing experience family issues listen modern music patient seem touch urge vital
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.
children expected
If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable. James E. Faust
children essential work
An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.
children deal reasons whine
A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it. Junior Seau
children comedians mindless people reduce reject
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes? Juan Williams
children freedom liberation
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? Kate Millett
children pop
I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are. Kate Winslet
children lots people raised
Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.
children job life lived pick
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
children despite people spanish
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! Katharine Lee Bates
children created happy parents
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
children tangled weave
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.